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Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30
Waterville.

Joseph Holmes and wife are visiting
his brother Joseph at Alb5rv this week.
....... Mrs. Peters has three children sick
with fever. Mrs. DR.. Bliss of New York
S,ate is visiting in town......E l.. VI. Shat
tuck and wife of Worcester, Mass, was
visiting friends in town the past week. ....
The Wateiville and Bakersfield ulnes
played mt Bakersfield Saturday. Scores
y to 26 in favor of Waterville.....E II.
Shattuck and wife went TO Saratoga
Springs, Saturday, where Mrs Shattuck
Will remain for few weeks for medical
treatmeut......Miss Erdle Nitherell has
returned from the Adirondack mountains
where She has worked this summer.....
Captain Mcfarland received 500 from
the pension department the past week, a
part of what he should have drawn when
his pension was first allowed .... While
Dwight Potter was hewing timber at
James Browns the past week an axe
slipped from the hand Of Frank Brown
who was scoring % feet distant, entering
the full bit of the axe into POtter's LETT
side Just below the hip
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30
EAST CHARLOTTE.

Messrs. c. Il. Cove and b. Cleveland are
away selling grapes. .....Mr. Myron Hos
ford's cranberry plantation is yielding
handsomely this year r.... Miss 5. A..
Hewitt and Mrs. Hungerford from Con
necticut are visiting friends in this vicin-
Ity.....M Mr.. Charles Harris was home
over Sunday recently.....Mr. Arthur
Hosford from Lowell, Mass, is visiting
with his uncle here, Mr. Dean Hosford,
and spending much of his leisure time in
taking fine photographs OF local scenery,
residences and individuals. ...... Sev-
eral go from here this week to
attend the meeting OF the Vermont Bap-
tist State convention, at Manches-
ter......B Rev. II. Mott closed his
labors with the Baptist church last san
day. Himself and family, ON the eve
OF their retiremeut from tuls field, have
received many agreeable surprises from
the young people ana Others Of the church
and congregation and community. ........
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30
FIRES IN VERMONT.
House and OutbuildinGs Destroyed AT
East Fairield-Loss, $4,000.

EAST FAIRFIELD, Sept 27.-Early this
morning the two barns and the dwelling
of Mrs. Mary A. Squires were burned with
three head or cattle, six hogs, four wagons
and "A lot OF tools loss 5000 insurance
$1,000
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30

pointed town grand juror by the select
men, the former juror, jude Fairman,
having resigned.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30

The Dorcas society's sociable was nor
fully attended. Saturday evening. .....T The
coal barge j. J. Doherty, was towed to
Port Henry, Friday, by the Ga2elle 49,.
The authorities are putting down 315 feet
OF small water pipe, north end Of Elbow
Barrett preached in the Congregational
church, Sunday....W. II. Strong of
Burlington spent Sunday at home.
August shipments from this depot were
of lumber, 1OS tons cattle 80 hay, 40 tons ;
butter, 10 tons curtain rolls, 15 kaolin, 80 !;
furniture, % ; merchandise, 10 tons. .......
Work is progressing rapidly on A. B..
Taber's new house. 90. Water is low on the
falls... The water was shut off Tuesday
for repairs . Mr.. n. !. McCuen went to
New York. Monday, on the excursion.
One apple tree, bearing winter fruit,
standing in the dOoryard of Mayor Nc
Cuen, yielded % bushels of apples, hand
picked and two bushels of wind-falls on
the ground.
BY the decision of the Interstate com
mission the fare to Western points, Chi
cago, Kansas City, Colorado, etc, by the
northern route, is the same from Nerzeu-
ues as from Albany, y. Y. II parties de
sire to 90 10y the way OF Albany then the
local fare from Nergennes to Albany will
be added, which is Si5O.....Mr. W. w.
hawkins is dong nice work around his
dwelling on Elbow street terracing, sod
ding and improving general. The
common council will have TO be
looking after sidewalks aud other
street COuVenieuces tor Fast street, pres
emily. Two new dwellings, improving the
looks and value Of the location, are well
under way for winter occupancy ......
Horace Allen. aged S3 years, grand
nephew Of Col. Ethan Allen, has truudled
q wheelharrow from Delaware, Ohio. ovel
700 miles, to visit his old home in Western
Vermont He was in Albany Friday
coming north. Twelve cars, load
ed with passengers and two locomotives
passed through here Monday for New
York ..... Rev. B. NJ. Kent, we'll knowr
In this vicinity, takes a prominent part il
the preachers convention held at Fonda
y. Y, Nov. and ? .... Boatmen are max
grievOus complaint about the filled VI
condition of the creek. Something mus
be done to clear the channel or navigation
to the lake from Nergennes will have tC
be carried on by flat boats.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30

We are having a severe drouth and the
atmosphere is hlled with smoke ......Mr.
and Mrs. Jacob Wait of Clarencevllle, t..
O., are visiting il town, after an absence
OF 20 years. Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Darby
of BrCome, Z. G., are visiting in town.. O..
NJ. Arthur IL. iill left for New York last
Saturday Miss Cora Phelps is visit
ing in Richford ..... Hon 5. II. Pike at
tended the Malone fair. Died, at Isle
La Note, Sept. 26, OF consumption, Will
liam Buchanan.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30
Fairfax.

Rev, Henry Crocker, Rev Asahel Gilbert
and f. w. Shepardson are attending the
Baptist State convention at Manchester
....... Mrs. Sarah Jarvis has returned
home.....S. Ii. Halsted of New York is
spending his vacation in town.. Mrs,
Marion Forsyth has gone to Troy n. y,
to visit her friend, Mrs Stewart. She will
return and spend the winter with her sister,
Mrs. +. :. Chamberlain. Jude Fair
man is quite ILL.,. Eliie Cady has re-
turned from the White mouutnius......
turned from Alburgh T. Hult and
Ella Carpeut have gone to market 10
get fall and winter goods...... Mrs Carl
Glllett has been visiting friends u Yer
gennes .... Isaac Wilcox has teen ap-
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-30
WINoOsKI

Right Reverend Louis DeGoesbriand
made an episcopal visit to the parish of St
Stephen Sunday and gave confirmation to
20 children --Wmoosl is coming rapidly
to the front as a show town. During the
past five weeks two companies have cxhibi-
ted here, each playing for one week. The
company that ended its engagement last
Friday night consisted Of some stars from
Plattsbwrg and a few amateurs. The audi
ences were composed largely of men, some
ladies however attended and supplied from
their own wardrobes the deficiencies existing
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LXI, NEW SERIES VOL. y

in that of the actors III. v. Horton and
wife returned Saturday night from New
York. A meeting of the graded school
teachers will be held at the Spring street
school house Monday evening and regularly
hereafter--The weekly pilgrimage of
cuffs and collars to Burlington will soon be
thing of the past as a Chinese laundry has
been opened on Main street Work on
the Canal street sewer is progressing rapidly.
The excavation is nearly completed and %
rods,of the masonry have been laid
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
The Color of the Eyes.

Generally speaking, blue eyes sig
nifty constancy and devotion to
friends.
Black eyes denote as q rule a sens
uous character and an inconstant,
tickle disposition. However, there are
some noted exceptions to this rule.
The main characteristics of the Vi
olet eye, which is called the womaa's
eye, are affection and purity, chivalric
belief, and limited or deficient intel
lectuality.
Gray eyes are the most expressive of
all eyes and denote strong qualities of
mind and soul. Persons with gray
eyes usually have great deal of pa
triotism.
dissatisfaction and conceit are
commonly the characteristic traits
represented by the green eye. When
,~.ses on yellowishness it
denotes that the possessor is gifted
with strong powers of Imagination.
The very light blue eye is character
istic of the Northern races, and in a
woman it suggests constancy and
truth, steadfastness, simplicity, cour-
age, and purpose. In a man it is
apt to denote a phlegmatic dispo-
sition.
Brown eyes are the eyes of the
South and East and denote as a gen.
eral rule passion and lack of orig
inality. In women they mean jeal-
ousy and cruelty very often, and in
men courage, superstition, and mild
recklessness.
Blue eyes usually go with light hair,
but when they go with dark hair and
complexion there is coupled with the
affectionate qualities tendency to
deceive, stimulated by an ambition for
conquest and leading to the gratifca-
ton of admiration.
Hazel is very difficult color to de-
termine, there are so many different
varieties. AS a general rule eyes of
this color suggest a good deal of
strength of character and generally a
sense of mischief and trickery. A
blue-gray with bronze streaks radi-
ating from the centre, comes nearest
to hazel.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
ORIENT LINE STEAMER oRMuTz.


(American) line, with It's magnificent but I'M
profitable boats and later host of lines. The
history of the Collins line is almost pathetic.
Starting out with the most brilliant prospects,
heavily subsidized by the United States gov
ernment, with ships built upon the most I'M
proved models then afoat and filled with
the most expensive conveniences, it was
expected that the Collins feet of
steamers would soon do most of
the transatlantic passenger traffic. But
it was not to be. Not voyage was
sailed by Collins steamer that was not
sailed at loss, and besides, there soon came
disasters at sea of sufficient magnitude to
ruin the strongest corporation. Then the
subsidies were withdrawn and the Collins
line soon collapsed.
Since that time the American flag has
floated over few ocean steamers, though ef-
forts are now being made to again place
American steamships On the Atlantic. The
Pacific Mail steamship line was also short
lived, largely because of the old fashioned
methods of construction adhered to, for in the
meantime side wheels gave place to the screw;
the water tight bulkhead, which saved both
the Celtic and the Britannia, was devised,
ocean steamers were placed on every sea
as well as the Atlantic, and there was
great development made, especially i'll
the steamers plying between Great Britain
and her colonies We cannot better close
this article than by the presentation Of a cut
of the Orient line steamer Ormutz on her
homeward voyage from Australia to Eng
land. She made her last trip Of II 900 miles
in twenty-seven days, the fastest time on
record She is 4s1 feet long, 81 feet deep and
50 feet broad. Her engines are of $500 horse
power She is as near perfection as may be-
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
A Pistol Duel Across the Table.

A few days after the battle of Wa
terloo a Mr.. Trevor and a certain
Captain, while at dinner party,
quarreled about lady. The Captain
being splendid shot and Trevor al
most blind, the latter demanded that
they fire at each other across table.
Some one secretly suggested that the
pistols should be loaded without ball,
and this was done. The two adverse
ries, who believed their last hour had
come, were as pale as death; but if
they were prey to deep emotion, not
muscle trembled. "Who will give
us the signalP" asked the Captain.
The person who undertook to give the
signal, said with a trembling voice:
'Raise your pistols" The muzzles
touched the breasts of the combat
ants. "When l count three, fire.
ne-two-threew They fired and
recoiled from the shock. "What's the
meaning of this?" exclaimed the two
combatants. "Who has dared to
make fools of us? There are no balls
in the pistols" "Honor is satisfied" ,"
exclaimed the friends around them.
Trevor ground his teeth. "The rem-
edy is easy enough" " said the Captain,
pointing to some swords suspended
from the wall. He took down two,
measured them, and presented one to
his adversary, who seized it eagerly.
"Now there shall be no trickeryl" he
exclaimed. "Stand off, sir" They
stood face to face, and the blades
glistened. The contest was short.
One of them soon fell-it was the Cap
tain. He expired without u groan.
80, my God" exclaimed Trevor.
"What have | done? Is this reality?"
And in terrible despair he flung him
self upon the corpse of his rival,
which he shook convulsively, as
though to bring it to life again.
DueIiag Days in the Arn,y:
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
Japanese and Stair-CIimbing.

There are many funny things in New
York bOarding-houses, as most people
know or believe, says q writer in the
Brooklyn Citizen. But l am told that
among the most amusing incidents are
those afforded by establishments where
japanese students are domiciled.
Hundreds Of these young men are in
New York in attendance at the various
academies and colleges, private and
public. They have been sent here to
get an american" education, and
most of them have taken the higher
branches of mathematics and engi-
neering. Few of them seem to care
for the classical course, or for any Ian
guage but English The funny part
of their life is learning to go up and
down stairs. 1t seems that in most
parts of Japan, particularly the rural
regions, stairways are unknown. The
houses, too. are seldom more than two
stories high, and access to the upper
floor is almost universally had by
means of ladder, upon which the
japanese run like sailors. Hence,
when these young men come to New
York and are lodged in boarding.
houses their apartments are generally
in the third or fourth story. To reach
their rooms they are compelled at first
to go up very cautiously and with the
aid of the balustrade. Some do not
even hesitate to go up cat fashion, on
all fQurs, from step to step. The treu-
BILE is that they have not learned to
balance the body SO as to ascend and
descend as we do. Our agility in 60
ing up and down stairs is really an ac-
robatic feat, but we are unconscious of
it because we have practiced it from
childhood Now, the young japanese
are determined to perform this feat,
and am told that they often spend
hours in the most persevering Fraq-
tice to acquire SO simple an accom-
lplishment. You can fancy what a lu-
dicrous scene they make. They soon
learn to go up the stairs. It's the
coming down which gives them trou-
/ BILE. The decensus is not facilis in
this case. The retrograde passus con-
stitutes the labor and the opus. When
the novice essays to come down stairs
his companions watch and guy him as
he totters in the effort to keep an up
right position. When, for any rea-
son, he is in q hurry, he has to do the
sailor net and come down on all fours,
stern foremost. ~ epNga ~
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
The Sex of the Satan,

The sex of the devil is no longer in
doubt, at least in the mind of one
female school-teacher, of whom the
Syracuse Journal tells the following:
There is young woman teaching in
one of the city schools, who, if her
power of persuasion equals her zeal,
will work discord among the sexes,
annihilate matrimonial prospects,
and produce a decidedly "bearish"
effect on the man market. If
she were dominic at Andover she
would be on trial for heresy within q
week. A few days ago one of her
pupils, a snuffling and droning school
boy, undertook the herculean labor of
parsing this sentence: "And the devil
shall be chained for thousand years."
The outlook was that his satanic
majesty's ENHANCEMENT would begin
before the parsing ended. But the
boy finally got to the devil, where, no
doubt all the listening class and the
nervous teacher devoutly wished
him. ''Da-a-v1," he drawled, ''is a
naoun; pro-o-per naoun; third person.
singrer number; common gen. I
"Stop!' screamed the schoolma'am
"Masculine! {! Als0dys nadsculinew +.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

sadness of their voices there yet rang
a tone of happiness.
when have l not loved you? she
answered.
And you will be my wife? DArl-
ing, / have long loved you, but after
Aunt Mary was stricken down with
paralysis, would not ask you to take
up new duties. Fow she needs you
no longer, and you shall leave the
farm whenever you wish.
Leave the farm! Oh, John, must
we leave it? thought it was yours
now.
SO il is.
'And you have made it so beautiful,
as well as profitable? Oh, John, why
must we leave it?'
Only because | thought it was your
wish
1T would break my heart 10 90
away. Ilove my home
And John, taking the little Ggnre
into a close embrace, wondero if any
city cond pro tuce n sweeter, dalntier
litlely lady than the one he held in
his ans
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
STEAM ON THE SEAS.
HOW ROBERT FuLToN'S IDEAS
HAVE BEEN DEVELOPED.


From Huils' Boat to the Present Swift
Ocean Greyhounds-The First AtInntie
Steamers-The Great western--Prescnt
State of Steam Navigation.
The recent collision on the high seas be-
tween the Celtic and the Britannia, two
steamers of the same line, has caused deal
of discussion. The fact that while if either
boat had struck wooden vessel amidships it
would have undoubtedly cut clean through
the hull like a knife, yet comparatively little
damage was done to either of the ships in the
accident, brings to mind with great force the
immense improvements that have been made
and the safeguards against loss of life and ship
that have been devised and put in practice
on vessels of this class. And this brings us
to consideration of the evolution of the mod
ern steamship.
No one now denies for moment that Rob
ert Fulton was the first man to make COM
mercial use of steam in navigation, nor the
immense practical impetus given to it by his
genius But he was not the first one to con-
ceive of the idea. In fact it is claimed for
Hero that he had notion of what could be
done in that way 130 years B. c.; and Blasco
de Garay, at Barcelona, in 1543, and later
Papin, in Germany, built rude steamboats,,
though we have no record as to the patterns
of their engines.
In 1871 Jonathan Hulls, of Liverpool, got
out pamphlet describing his idea of a steam
boat, and the picture he printed thereof is
still extant The accompanying cut gives a
fair idea of Hulls' boat, and from it it will be
apparent that the inventor had hit upon the
stern wheel idea, and also that he contem-
plated using his craft more as towboat than
anything else, for he pictures it tugging
away at sailing vessel of considerable size.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
The Cross-Eyed Clerk.

During the late Christmas holidays
a large firm Unemployed as an as
sistant clerk young man who was ex-
ceedingly cross-eyed.
The especial duty assigned to him
was to act as watchman, and
prevent the peculation of all sorts of
small fancy articles that were lying
about the counters for exhibition at
that time.
One day half-grown boy came into
the store, and after looking around,
pricing first one thing and another,
among which were some very nice
socks, he finally started to go out of
the door. .e.
AT this moment the new clerk
touched him on the shoulder, and in
yiting him to come to the back part of
the store, said to him, politely, "Oblige
me by giving me at once the socks that
you have in your back pocket"
Show do you know l have any
socks in my back pocketp" demanded
the boy, in bold tone. '"i
81 saw you put them there" said the
clerk, very gently. ''
The boy looked up into the young
mans face IN utter amazement. care
you looking at me nowP" he asked,
earnestly. "Do you see me this very
minute?" he asked still more earnestly.
"Of course | do" replied the clerk.
"Good Lord, misterw cried the boy,
with a blanching face; "here's your
socks" And with a bound he was out
the back door, over the fence, and
away, having learned lesson con-
cerning all-seeing eyes which it is to
be hoped he may never forget.-Lacy
Underwood Nc Cam, in Harper's.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

Senator Stanford relates that he
earned his first money when six years
old by sending to market lot of horse
radish which grew in his fathers gar
den. His second venture, which he
declares was the most successful
speculation of his life, was selling five
bushels of chestnuts, which he and his
brothers had gathered for family use,
for $25.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

Mr.. Labouchere now and then slips
in his jokes and illusions. Recently,
wishing to call Mr.. Goschen Shylock,
he said that he believed Mr.. Goschen's
ancestors came from Venice, and that
Mr.. Goschen was a lineal descendant
of the famous merchant who once
lived there.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

Recent observations establish the fact that
true pneumonia is due not to the accidental
penetration of specific microbes into the sys-
tenn, as is usually supposed, but to the de-
velopment under favorable conditions OF
microbic germs permanently present in the
system. A chief condition OF such develop
ment is sudden chill, Which explains the fire.
quent coincidence of lung affections with alb
raapt changes of temperature. Mature. i.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

gines was $50 horse An idea of the sub
sequent development of steam power for
steamers may be gathered from the fact that
the same concern that built the engines of the
Great Western are to-day building twin
screw engines from which they have guaran-
teed 1880 horse power, and from which
they expect to get $4,000. They are to propel
an ironclad of a displacement six times as
great as the Great Western and twice her
speed. But the Great Western Steamship
company, which soon had feet of boats on
the sea, was afterward driven to the wall by
the Cunard line. Then came the Collins
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

Itch, Prairie Mango, and Scratches of
every kind cured In thirty minutes by
Woolford's Sanitary Lotion. Use no
other. This never fails. Sold by D. j.
Humphrey, Napoleon. my-5-1yr
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

In one blast John Goylc. of Gales
Vile. CAL. threw ont gold worth $1,000,
some of the ribbon rock being almost
solid metal
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

Henry Detwiller, the man who dis
pensed the first homeopathic remedy
IN America died in Switzerland in
1917. "
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16

Miss Braddon can claim her jubilee.
She is publishing her tiftieth volume.
Democratic Northwest. [volume] (Napoleon, Ohio) 1869-1894, 1887-06-16
Land for Sale!

FNHF undersigned will sell so acres ofland situated
l. in the west half Of the northwest quarter Of
section IA, town 4 range s.; acres clear, the bal
ance timber land. Title clear. For further infor-
nation inquire of W. II. Bruins, on the adjoining
form, or of ANDREW SWARTS,
jamestown, Pc.
apl 1873 II Mercer Co.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-10-12

sNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF AN OR
~ der to me directed in the above stated
case, by JudgeI. d. Witherspoon, dated
February 10Th, 1887, will sell in from: Of
Clarendon Court House, at Manning, with
in legal hours of sale, on Monday, the 7th
day OF November next, to the highest bidder
for cash, the following described property,
to wit: All that parcel of land situate in the
county aud State aforesaid, on the north
side of Sautee river, containing forty (4O)
acres, bounded north by lands of Alingo
Fielder; south by lands of JamesJ. Frie1son;
east by lands of Aaron Johnson; and west
by other lands of Daniel Fielder, (now Ge-
ceased) which arc now occupied by his son
Pinckney Fielder,
Purchaser 70 pay for papers
n. II. LESESIE,
Sheriff Clarendon County.
October II, 1887.